Store eclipse .project files outside the project directory

Question

Hello there, I dunno whether it's even possible since this file does not contain any relevant links to directories, but anyway: I want to store .project files in a separate dir outside the project root. How can I do that?

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Answer 1

You can't place the ".project" outside of the project root, as the project root is the folder where the ".project" is located. What you can is, you can define a project at an other location as your sources und create linked folders to link your sources to your project.

If you create a new folder there is a button "Advanced" in the dialog. If you cklick it there is a checkbox "Link to folder in the file system". Here you can link folders to your projekt taht are not located in the project folder. I assume this is the effect you want to achieve.